Word: hauptmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Department of Germanic languages and literatures as well as the Visiting Committee on German have further kept his memory alive by arranging four public evening lectures at Sanders Theater. Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, brilliant lecturer of the University of Breslau has already commanded two of such meetings. Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Bliss Perry, Emeritus, will deliver the two remaining lectures on March fourth and March twenty-second respectively...
...Professor Emeritus left a higher regard and deeper affection among students than Bliss Perry. Fisherman, Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
...town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable
...dislikes contracts and travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...